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November 2, 2011. The molar tooth of a Denisovan Image courtesy of David Reich et al., Nature. It’s weird to think that tens of thousands of years ago, humans were mating with different species ...
- Denisovans and Their Mysterious Origins
- Evidence of A Second Instance of Denisovan Interbreeding
- Migration Patterns and Interbreeding Locations
All we know about the mysterious Denisovanscomes from a single set of human fossils found in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. In 2008, scientists first discovered a bone from a pinky finger in the cave and concluded it belonged to a previously unknown ancient hominin who lived between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago. They called the species th...
Researchers assumed the Denisovan ancestry found in Asia was due to migration from Oceania, the larger region containing Melanesia. But recently, scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle stumbled on something surprising: evidence for a second, distinct instance of humans getting hot and heavy with Denisovans. In their analysis of mor...
Browning and her colleagues assume that modern humans mixed with the Denisovans shortly after migrating out of Africa, around 50,000 years ago. While they’re not sure of the location, they believe the interbreeding occurred in at least two places: eastern Asia, and further south, in Indonesia or Australia. While the new study confirms that modern h...
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Sep 6, 2011 · Not only did the two interbreed; the resulting hybrid offspring were functional enough to be integrated into human society. Some of these hybrids survived to have kids of their own, who, in turn ...
- Adam Clark Estes
Abstract. Mitochondrial Eve confirms the “out of Africa” theory, but the evidence also supports interbreeding between Homo sapiens and other hominins: Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo heidelbergensis. This article explains how interbreeding between early H. sapiens and archaic hominins occurred. The availability of edible insects in East ...
Feb 20, 2020 · The story of human evolution is full of ancient trysts. Genes from fossils have shown that the ancestors of many living people mated with Neanderthals and with Denisovans, a mysterious group of extinct humans who lived in Asia. Now, a flurry of papers suggests the ancestors of all three groups mixed at least twice with even older "ghost ...
Oct 1, 2016 · It is hard to imagine today, but for most of humankind's evolutionary history, multiple humanlike species shared the earth. As recently as 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens lived alongside several ...
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Nov 27, 2013 · We already knew that our species, Homo sapiens, interbred with two other hominin species, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Now it looks like the Denisovans did some interbreeding of their own .
